Electronic – The Patience of a Saint
Completely brilliant grump-pop from the best ever supergroup.
Hooverphonic – Mad About You
Belgian pop with a cinematic twist? Ca plane pour moi...
CHVRCHΞS – Clearest Blue
The success and ubiquity of some bands is a little perplexing, and Scottish synth pop specialists CHVRCHΞS are a great example. To date they’ve had one ‘hit’ (The Mother We Share, no.38) […]
Bangles – Following
Now That's What I Call Stalking.
Voice of the Beehive – Adonis Blue
Oh, beehive!
Gossip – Move in the Right Direction
Hot Gossip.
Florence + the Machine – Hurricane Drunk
Luke gets a lesson in anatomy from Florence Welch and discusses the art of single picking.
Squeeze – Some Fantastic Place
Or: how to write a memorial without getting maudlin.
Horse – God’s Home Movie
Stewart on the rather brilliant Horse, regional bias and the inexplicable popularity of Scooter.
Saint Etienne – Tonight
Surrender to the sound.
The Men – I Don’t Depend On You
How an incognito Human League predicted both their own future and all of the 80s in one record. Amazing.
Phixx – Relentless
If Into the Popvoid ever creates it’s very own ‘Hall of Fame’ – please Niall, can we have a ‘Hall of Fame’ – my first nomination would go to Roseann […]
Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
I reserve a special place in my heart for the music genre that I shall refer to from now on as the ‘ice cold electro banger’. This relatively niche category […]
Dolly Dots – What a Night
Saddled with the worst name in pop history, that didn't stop the Dolly Dots from conquering Europe.
Duran Duran – Pressure Off
I’m well aware of how completely out of touch I am with the modern way of marketing pop music. As we’ve discussed before with Brandon Flowers and Frida Sundemo, the […]
Bananarama – More Than Physical
Choosing a follow-up single to a massive hit is a decision always fraught with danger. As a man who spends way too much time thinking about what singles should be […]
Liberty X – Fresh
The legendary music industry figure Simon Napier-Bell probably knows more about creating popstars than Simon Cowell, Pete Waterman and Simon Fuller combined. His career as an artist manager started in […]
Foreigner – Urgent
I’ve never been what anyone could even remotely describe as a ‘Classic Rock’ fan. All that posturing and ‘axe grinding’ never really appealed to my predominately pop-orientated palate. Okay, I […]
Colourbox – The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme
Some records are like tiny fizzing petri dishes crawling with cultures which will eventually find their way, well, everywhere – Donna Summer‘s I Feel Love is the most obvious example – but not […]
The Grateful Dead – Touch of Grey
Can a band be considered to be one of the most successful in the world without ever having had a hit single? The answer is, of course, yes, but the […]
